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Post subject: Rant: the butchers of Ebay
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:05 am
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I have been looking for an original 50s Duo (or MM) in sand with a gold 'plate for years. I've virtually given up with vintage guitar stores in the UK (these models are rarely in stock and when they do appear are priced at a ridiculous level). So I am taking the big risk that is using Ebay to find a vintage instrument.

But what I have found is that more and more people are breaking up their beautiful vintage instruments to try and make a bigger profit selling parts rather than a complete guitar. I have alerts set up, and every day I get emails multiple listing parts - usually from the same person, listed at the same time.

What is wrong with these people? PLEASE, if you have one of these instruments, treat it how it should be: take care of it and if you want to sell it, pass on a complete instrument to the next careful and loving owner. Leave the screwdriver in the tool shed.

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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:03 am
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unfortunately, these guitars were usually butchered in the '70s and '80s when they could be had very cheap. i don't have a problem with people parting out an already butchered guitar.
but it does make me mad when people take complete guitars and part them out. especially when they try and sell the neckplates and stuff as "strat" ones just to make more money.

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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:32 am
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I totally agree with u. it bugs me 2 when people on ebay take guityars a part. You find a great guitar but its in peices and sometimes some of the peices are missing already because they have been sold. 8)


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:51 pm
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Never part out an old Fender. There's always someone out there willing to perform the work needed to bring it back to its former glory. So if anyone was planning on trashing an old Jazzmaster with a scratchy pot or something, I'd be happy to take it off you're hands :D


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:03 pm
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hi-fi-guy104 wrote:
Never part out an old Fender. There's always someone out there willing to perform the work needed to bring it back to its former glory. So if anyone was planning on trashing an old Jazzmaster with a scratchy pot or something, I'd be happy to take it off you're hands :D


Me too ! :wink:

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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:09 pm
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as long as people are willing to give more for the parts than the guitar as a whole it will continue. money talks. But no one will be parting out my all origanal 1966 strat and 1973 tele custom till im dead!


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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:56 pm
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I almost got thrown off of eBay in its infancy back 6 years ago or so when stuff was still really cheap and there were only like 4 pages of Fenders up. Even then people were parting out whole guitars to make more money and I got into it with one of the worst of the sellers (who is since gone for excessive negative feedback) he was parting out EVERYTHING it was sick!

I used to cruise the guitar shows all over the north and midwest buying and selling guitars and I can't tell you how many of the dealers were selling the neckplates off their guitars and then selling the guitars with blank plates! All just to many a few hundred more dollars off them!

I don't really mind if a guitar isn't all perfect and original - I am a working musician and am guilty of routing many a mustang back in the early 90s but breaking guitars up into parts... it turns my stomach to think of all the playable guitars parted out never to be played again. RIP


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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:20 am
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All just to many a few hundred more dollars off them!

I don't really mind if a guitar isn't all perfect and original - I am a working musician and am guilty of routing many a mustang back in the early 90s but breaking guitars up into parts... it turns my stomach to think of all the playable guitars parted out never to be played again. RIP


To be screwed back together into playable instruments, of course. Does anybody buy a Strat neck and then hang it on the wall like a painting? No, they screw it onto a guitar, usually to create a better illusion of authenticity.

Dealers are in business to make money. If there's a better ROI to be had on a collection of guitar parts, that's how they're gonna do it.

You know what I find most amusing: the concept that a "vintage" Fender is somehow a rare and desirable thing not only created this "part it out and fake 'em" market, it also creates the attitude that decries this very behavior.

Seriously, guys, these things aren't precious jewels. They're industrial objects, easy to put together and take apart, and that's why people do it: because someone will pay more for the parts than the whole guitar.


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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:22 am
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i would not buy anythng on ebay don`t trust em


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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:30 pm
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I've done some buying on eBay with good results. I find it hard to believe you can get more money for the parts than the whole, though, so many people are doing it.

Parting out vintage guitars should be criminalized.


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